Ethicist Quotes

#1. An ethicist is someone who sees something wrong with whatever you have in mind.

Marvin Minsky

#2. For a man who purports to have learned of media ethics only this month, Mr. Williams has spent an undue amount of time appearing as a media ethicist on both CNN and the cable news networks of NBC.

Frank Rich

#3. An artist owed a duty to nothing except his own irresponsibility. It was OK for an artist to frolic in the water, no matter how bloody the waves or how high the tide rose. An ethicist had an obligation to drown.

Howard Jacobson

#4. Irony is the cultivation of the spirit and therefore follows next after immediacy; then comes the ethicist, then the humourist, then the religious person.

Soren Kierkegaard

#5. As a chef I'm not your dietitian or your ethicist, I'm in the pleasure business.

Anthony Bourdain

#6. For a few minutes I wished that Dante and I lived in the universe of boys instead of the universe of almost-men.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#7. There's a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness.

Denis Diderot

#8. If you cannot improve upon the silence, do not speak.

Chris Rose

#9. (Those who) possessed the highest (sense of) propriety were (always seeking) to show it, and when men did not respond to it, they bared the arm and marched up to them.

Lao-Tzu

#10. I'm 36 and if I met a woman of my own age and married her, I'd also be marrying her former life, her past. It might be OK for some people - I don't want to judge it or anything - but it's not for me. It would destroy my creativity.

Henry Rollins

#11. Every actor is different so you cannot become best friends on Day One. You just have to learn to know each other.

Louis Leterrier

#12. A smaller government reflecting the needs of the middle class and poor is superior to a big government reflecting the needs of the privileged and powerful.

Robert B. Reich

#13. Men impose deception on women and punish them for being deceived, force them down to the lowest level and punish them for falling so low, bind them in marriage and then chastise them with menial service for life, or insults, or blows.

Nawal El Saadawi

#14. At street corners, where walls join, I thought I could see some familiar features, like outlines of human faces, the shadows of cheekbones and eyebrows. They are really there, caught in stone for all time, along with the marks left by earthquakes, winters and scourges wrought by men.

Ismail Kadare

#15. I'm not against the intergenerational function of the museum, I am not against its address or celebration of the individual, but I am against its continuous, unreflected-on celebration of material production.

Tino Sehgal

#16. I still forget, sometimes, that I am no longer 12 years old.

Eugene Ionesco

#17. My father once told me that the most important thing every man should know is what he would die for. If you don't know that, he said, what are you worth? Nothing. You're not a man at all.

Tana French

#18. When I'm in the U.S. Senate, I will fiercely oppose the president's attack on Kentucky's coal industry, because protecting our jobs will be my No. 1 priority.

Alison Lundergan Grimes